On 13:56 19 May 2002, fred pasteck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Hi everyone. I'm trying to dd a CDROM to produce an | ISO image using the following: | # dd if=/dev/hdc of=cdrom.iso | This works, and I can mount the resulting ISO using | the loop device, but there's an I/O error at the end: | # dd if=/dev/hdc of=cdrom.iso | dd: reading `/dev/hdc': Input/output error | 1000480+0 records in | 1000480+0 records out
That's probably just hitting "end of medium". Devices don't really look like regular files. | It's apparently missing a byte or two because the MD5 | sums don't match what they're supposed to be. What is | the best way to get an image from a CDROM? Maybe it's too long. If you trim the image to match, exactly, the known size of the ISO you expect, does the md5sum work? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Think positively, act positively, and never leave fingerprints. - Robert Sneddon _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
